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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

adjectival, adverbial, attributive, auxiliary, auxiliary verb, brittle, capricious, changeable, conjunctive, copula, copulative, correct, corruptible, deciduous, defective verb, deponent verb, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, finite verb, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, formal, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, functional, glossematic, grammatic, impermanent, impersonal verb, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, infinitive, insubstantial, intransitive, intransitive verb, linking, linking verb, modal auxiliary, momentary, mortal, mutable, neuter verb, nominal, nondurable, nonpermanent, participial, passing, perishable, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, short-lived, structural, substantive, syntactic, tagmemic, temporal, temporary, transient, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, verb, verb phrase, verbal, volatile

Dictionary Results for transitive:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

transitive
    adj 1: designating a verb that requires a direct object to
           complete the meaning [ant: intransitive]
    n 1: a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in
         order to be grammatical [syn: transitive verb,
         transitive verb form, transitive]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Transitive \Tran"si*tive\, a. [L. transitivus: cf. F. transitif.
   See Transient.]
   1. Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.]
      --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Effected by transference of signification.
      [1913 Webster]

            By far the greater part of the transitive or
            derivative applications of words depend on casual
            and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the
            fancy.                                --Stewart.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Gram.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action
      which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which
      requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive
      verb, for example, he holds the book.
      [1913 Webster] -- Tran"si*tive*ly, adv. --
      Tran"si*tive*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)

transitive

   A relation R is transitive if x R y  &  y R z  =>  x R z.
   Equivalence relations, pre-, partial and total orders are all
   transitive.

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